With An Eye To Economy

A tinware peddler callea at a nouse 011 Fourth Avenue the other day to exchange some of his goods for paper raes. The woman brought out a saok weighing ten or iifteen pounds and the peddler lield it up on his spring seales aud announced: "Dere vhas sliust six pounds, so help me gracious." Her husband carne outat that motnenl and replied that he would not accept anv such weight. He knew there were at" least ten pounds in the sack and he didn't propose to be swindled. "Mv frendt, do you pelief I sheat you?'r asked the peddler. You would if you got tlie chance." It was agreed that the man should take the sack acroas to the grocery and weigh t for himself, but he was no sooner ont of sight than the peddler drove oB' and did not stop for five blocks. In the afternoon the man met him down town : tul asked: "Ah! vou rasca], why didn't you wait forme?1' "Vash dpre more ash aix pounrts? "Yes, sir -ten of 'eni!" "Vhell, dots Thy I didn't wait. If vou pelief my scale's vhas too light und t pelief der grocery scales vash too heavy, we shtaud und jaw und cali ñames und lose time. So I move on „„.i mil-p half a. dollar on some ld